# Mr. Mapperley — The Charing Cross Mystery character guide

> Mr. Mapperley in The Charing Cross Mystery by J. S. Fletcher.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mapperley

**First appearance:** 0000-i-the-last-train-east

## Snapshot

A discreet, resourceful clerk who turns quiet observation and a well-placed acquaintance into hard intelligence for his employer.

## Who they are

Mapperley works behind the scenes, watching comings and goings and recruiting helpers like the talkative Mr. Goldmark to trail suspects through London's streets and tube stations. He is formal, grave, and entirely reliable, the kind of man who reports facts without embellishment and lets his employer draw the conclusions. His patient surveillance of Baseverie and Vivian's gives Hetherwick the concrete leads that speculation alone could never supply.

## In the story

### [Black Velvet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/vii-black-velvet)

Hetherwick's clerk who relays news about the police finding the man who was with Hannaford in the train.

### [X: The Mysterious Visitor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/x-the-mysterious-visitor)

Hetherwick's clerk, described as ordinary and astute, tasked with following Baseverie.

### [XI: Lady Riversreade](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xi-lady-riversreade)

Reports his surveillance of Lady Riversreade's visitor, tracking him to Vivian's Night Club.

### [Alias Madame Listorelle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xii-alias-madame-listorelle)

Mapperley reports to Hetherwick that he saw Baseverie talking with a woman at Vivian's and that Hannaford had been there with Baseverie.

### [The Order in Writing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xxi-the-order-in-writing)

Brings his associate Goldmark to report on Baseverie; theorizes that Hannaford and Granett were poisoned by Ambrose and Baseverie; secretly takes the note from the caretaker.

### [The Highly-Respectable Solicitor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xxii-the-highly-respectable-solicitor)

Fliches the note from the caretaker, then disappears on his own 'important notion' before the morning meeting.

### [The Landlady of Little Smith Street](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xxiii-the-landlady-of-little-smith-street)

Traces the special paper to a stationer and identifies Baseverie's address as 56 Little Smith Street.

### [The House in the Yard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charing_cross_mystery_se/chapters/xxiv-the-house-in-the-yard)

Accompanies Hetherwick and is sent to fetch Detective-Sergeant Robmore.

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